PodX Group
Website: www.podxgroup.com
Owned by: Qarlbo
Owns
- Filt
- Goldhawk Productions
- Listen Entertainment Ltd - ('Listen')
- Nouvelles Écoutes
- Perfect Day Media
- Platform Media
- Posta
- Suomen Podcastmedia
Latest news
- Sep 12: In Sweden, PodX has acquired another company. Perfect Day Media, one of the Nordics’ largest and most successful podcast studios, is now becoming a key part of the rapidly expanding PodX Group.
- May 20: PodX Group has purchased London-based Platform Media. It’s the largest acquisition that PodX Group has made. Terms weren’t given, but the company valuation is “eight figures”. Pod X now owns three London-based podcast companies: Goldhawk Productions, Listen, and Platform Media.
- May 31, 2023: Listen, a major podcast producer based in London, has been acquired by PodX Group. No terms were given; the deal is described as a "milestone" acquisition for PodX, and is the largest deal in the UK podcast industry since Sony bought production company Somethin' Else in 2021.
- May 5, 2023: Staffan Rosell, the CEO of PodX Group, is interviewed in this week's Podcast Business Journal. Their plans are not to turn podcasts into TV: "We say to all the companies that we meet that it’s audio first, it’s podcast first. If you’re successful and you have something fantastic that someone wants to make television or film out of, that’s great, but that’s a bonus. Podcast companies think that everything will become television and film. That will be, I think, the exception rather than the rule." Subscribe free here for the full interview.
- Apr 28, 2023: In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, an interview with Staffan Rosell from the PodX Group, and Ami Thakkar talks about The Podcast Academy. And, the good folks at Headliner have made it look amazing on YouTube.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter